Interview: Garson Yu of yU+co

[…] for R/Greenberg Associates where I learned about motion graphics and title design. With audio/visual design, you have the added dimension of sound that constantly… Read more

Justin Cone • 17 years ago

United Airlines “It’s Time to Fly”

[…] Chastain, Pixel Farm Moondust Exec. Creative Directors: Stuart D’Rozario, Bob Barrie Art Director: Brian Lambert Agency Producers: Holly Stone / Jack Steinmann Animator: Ishu… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Asif Mian joins 1st Ave Machine

[…] use whatever technique I think will best tell my story.” Mian’s initial work, “Fast Cars,” a music video for hip hop artist Aesop Rock,… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago

Ghost Robot: “Bonnaroo Line-Up”

[…] full animation would look like once cut and layered. When satisfied with the effect of the digital simulation we then took the 2D digital… Read more

Boca Ceravolo • 16 years ago

Review: Visual Effects for Directors

[…] punches when it comes to technical details. Touching on the history of visual effects and CG imaging when necessary, the course delves into the… Read more

Justin Cone • 15 years ago

Brand New School: Back to School with HP

Brand New School takes a break from summer vacation, and hits the books early with two new spots for HP Back to School. In Maintain… Read more

Brandon Lori • 15 years ago

The Veiled Commodity, a film by Vinh Dickson

The Veiled Commodity, a film by Vinh Dickson

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago

Noah Harris for Blink Ink: Talk Talk

Joining forces with UK Production Company Blink Ink  and Agency CHI, Noah Harris directs Talk Talk. The light-writing concept is tired, but the spot’s worthy… Read more

Brandon Lori • 15 years ago

Twenty120 Roundup “In The Age of Opulence”

Indeed, Twenty120 has come to pass. Not long ago, screenings for the festival went underway, drawing in artists across the board, and cooking up a… Read more

Brandon Lori • 15 years ago

Rise and Fall Q&A:

[…] many assets that it forced us to come up with clever ways to manage and load them into the software. We developed asset managers… Read more

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago

GEL 2010 T&F Q&A

[…] illustrations for this? They tell the story of each speaker in such a simple and direct way. Was that difficult to boil down their… Read more

Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago

OK Go “End Love” – Masters of the One Take Music Video, by Gunther and Lieberman

[…] a dSLR shooting one frame every few minutes for about a week… Post processing was interesting! We cut the whole thing in Final Cut,… Read more

Ryan Rothermel • 14 years ago

Big Think Series: Can You Know Motion Without Knowing Stillness? (Part 1)

[…] some of these questions. Motion Media Design builds on the tradition of many creative disciplines. To break it down to its essence, I have… Read more

Austin Shaw • 14 years ago

RIP Chris Marker

[…] La Jetée. His films were always intensely personal and poetic, challenging the very notion of narrative, of documentary, and of memory. Marker used cartoons,… Read more

Dominique Elliott • 12 years ago

Crafting graphics for the Oscars: An interview with Henry Hobson

[…] Then, you build the transitions into that. So the Grand Budapest Hotel becomes a wanted poster which then changes to a top secret British government file decoded into… Read more

Justin Cone • 10 years ago

In-Depth: Making the Best of Motionographer with Aran Quinn and Mill+

[…] politely informed him that while he had potential, his CG chops weren’t quite up to snuff yet. Instead of joining The Mill as a… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

School Profile: Savannah College of Art & Design

[…] message or process and look to improve it through applied thinking and practice. Motion design is similar, in that is embraces the full possibility… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

What is web animation? Rachel Nabors explains it all.

[…] talking about UI animation or more traditional animation (i.e. character-driven stuff) being executed with web-friendly code (HTML, JS, CSS)? Or both? Everyone has a… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

Ickerman: Sci-fi nostalgia for the current day (with bad ass vehicles)

[…] specifically the lane-hogging, glass-encased driverless cars full of partygoers.  This, I thought, is what our near future might actually look like.  Design the driverless… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

How to make your skin crawl, the story of “Teeth” with Holbrooks

[…] the animation as we had in “t.o.m.” But instead of just one layer of a shadow and a highlight, we had multiple multiple layers… Read more

Justin Cone • 9 years ago

7 Ways to Mix Frame-By-Frame and Rigged Animation

[…] a character or object transforms frame by frame into another. Hold: A frame of animation that is repeated on the film or video to… Read more

Chris Cray • 2 years ago

Zero 7 video by click3x

If we are talking about design, I’d have to say that this video exemplifies two of the best little pieces of advice when it comes… Read more

Tread • 18 years ago

Two More Envelope-Pushers

If you’ve been reading this site (or Tween) for any time at all, you know I love to talk about the convergence of web and… Read more

Justin Cone • 18 years ago

Joyrider: Sun-Rype “Swing”

For their first joint project, Joyrider Films’ Wade Shotter and Andras Ketzer created “Swing,” a faux stop-motion spot for Sun-Rype. Independently, Wade and Andras’ work… Read more

Justin Cone • 16 years ago